For the young men of Dunbar—the low-income, historically segregated neighborhoods of Fort Myers, Florida—avoiding the path that leads to easy money as a drug dealer often means choosing complete devotion to football and dreams of NFL stardom. While such dreams remain out of reach for most, an astonishing number of Dunbar athletes, including NFL idols Deion Sanders, Jevon Kearse, and Earnest Graham, have achieved massive success. Fourth Down in Dunbar is the story of how one community, plagued by drugs and violence, where many children are fatherless, gave rise to so many stellar youth athletes. Using Sanders as the centerpiece of the story, David Dorsey explores Dunbar’s history to show how the same drug culture that ruined so many promising futures also served as motivation for football success. As a reporter for the Fort Myers News-Press, Dorsey had exclusive access to the players and their relatives. He shows the success of the wildly talented as well as the regrets of those who took the wrong path, while highlighting hope for the future of Dunbar. In this poignant tale of heartbreak and triumph, Dorsey reveals the true nature of these men who overcame the obstacles in their lives and made their families and their hometown proud.
Management Behaviours in Higher Education explores the traits and behaviours of higher education leaders that are associated with staff management. It sets out beneficial management qualities and techniques which can be applied and suggests the need for a behavioural standard for senior managers in universities. The book showcases the importance of creating a supportive motivational climate and culture for greater psychological security in higher education. It proposes the idea of an agreed behavioural framework for those in and being considered for staff management positions to provide an improved motivational climate. Chapters evaluate current business management practice and human resources advice and compare these to research evidence on the management of higher education staff. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the study of higher education, educational leadership and management studies. It will also appeal to those interested in business studies and the suggested parallel role/topic of sports coaching/or similar.
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The poetry and short stories of David Michael Dunbar. *Disclaimer: Any resemblance between persons on either cover of this book and Alan Styles, former mayor of Salinas, California, are entirely coincidental.
An anthology of works by David Michael Dunbar including selections from Liars Corner Road, Om Nom Nom Umsplatum, Ethel, the Two-Teated Cow, Who Picked the Elephant's Nose?, Fowl Play, The Heroine Mule, The Skateboarder on I-15, Spirit Lake, One Day At Dawn, Station 24 & Revenge of the Space Smelt!!! 2nd Edition, Marrpar 9 & The Bottomless Cup of Coffee, Occam's Razor & Other Deductive Proofs for Truth and God, and more in paperback.
For the young men of Dunbar—the low-income, historically segregated neighborhoods of Fort Myers, Florida—avoiding the path that leads to easy money as a drug dealer often means choosing complete devotion to football and dreams of NFL stardom. While such dreams remain out of reach for most, an astonishing number of Dunbar athletes, including NFL idols Deion Sanders, Jevon Kearse, and Earnest Graham, have achieved massive success. Fourth Down in Dunbar is the story of how one community, plagued by drugs and violence, where many children are fatherless, gave rise to so many stellar youth athletes. Using Sanders as the centerpiece of the story, David Dorsey explores Dunbar’s history to show how the same drug culture that ruined so many promising futures also served as motivation for football success. As a reporter for the Fort Myers News-Press, Dorsey had exclusive access to the players and their relatives. He shows the success of the wildly talented as well as the regrets of those who took the wrong path, while highlighting hope for the future of Dunbar. In this poignant tale of heartbreak and triumph, Dorsey reveals the true nature of these men who overcame the obstacles in their lives and made their families and their hometown proud.
The Great Hornswoggle The poetry and short stories of David Michael Dunbar and lampoon of today's society; a result of Marxist public education. Unedited, unadulterated.
This title looks at the long history of fortification that has been revealed excavations on a rocky headland high above the harbour at Dunbar on the east coast of Scotland.
An anthology of works by David Michael Dunbar including selections from Liars Corner Road, Om Nom Nom Umsplatum, Ethel, the Two-Teated Cow, Who Picked the Elephant's Nose?, Fowl Play, The Heroine Mule, The Skateboarder on I-15, Spirit Lake, One Day At Dawn, Station 24 & Revenge of the Space Smelt!!! 2nd Edition, Marrpar 9 & The Bottomless Cup of Coffee, Occam's Razor & Other Deductive Proofs for Truth and God, and more.
A sleeper agent takes a job at the Bleckson convenience store, but refuses to assassinate Monarch when he learns that MKULTRA is the POWERFUL DELUSION spoken of by the Apostle Paul in fulfillment of sacred text (2 Thessalonians 2:11). The protagonist, Antiochus Epiphanes, finds himself in a parody of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' with his fellow employees, locates a time portal in a styrofoam coffee cup, and goes on to a surprise ending.
Meet Mike Gribble, recluse and mad scientist, who is mistaken for Mothman when he lands on the Silver Memorial Bridge in Point Pleasant. Enter Phudd, sleeper agent, employed at Jaxson Travel Stop. When Phudd's employers (the McJoys) must flee where will they go? To Siccar Point II; a diamond planet made by Mike Gribble using industrial diamond technology. Not to be outdone, Phudd grows a 33 year old woman in just 8 months using Baby Dough, lamin A extracted from a Progeria patient, and human growth hormone. Phudd confides in Gribble that he's carrying classified documents belonging to the CIA including codes and plans for the overthrow of the Middle East and the... United States! But there's more! While the social elite plan on "culling the herd" of the earth in a mass eugenics project, aliens have contacted Phudd and informed him that they are about to cull the social elite. Join Gribble, Phudd, the McJoys, and the crew at Dairy Creme in Mike Gribble in Jaxson Travel Stop and the Phuture of Phudd.
When Mediocrites challenges Socrates that faith is truth i.e. a fact set apart and that even natural science is based on faith, he is arrested and questioned by Socrates. Offered his choice of punishment, Mediocrites suggests a moderate fine. On the premise of contemplation of sentence, the hearing is adjourned and Mediocrites is invited to dine at a sumptuous feast prepared by Socrates where he is encouraged to gorge himself on its many delicacies. After the feast it is abruptly announced to Mediocrites that he is immediately sentenced to drink the contents of a large chalice filled with a powerful mixture of laxative and muscle relaxant and then be confined to the agora at Athens for three days without bathroom privileges, completely naked except for a white sheet. (Based loosely and not so loosely on Plato's record of Meno's questioning of Socrates, but let's not call it plagiarism).
A good humored poem about Iberia parish, Louisiana, the true story about an attempted dream murder my mother almost committed, an anecdote told by a former professor at the University of West Virginia at Parkersburg's Ripley campus, the fantastic short story, 'The Frigate Rancid and Little Dog, and more...
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